Earth matters on stage : ecology and environment in American theater /
Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater's potential power in the age of climate change. Using cultural and environme...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Linkit: | ProQuest Ebook Central Full-Text |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: from ecotheater to ecodramaturgy
- Introduction: where has theater been while the world's been falling apart?
- 1 Stories that kill: Augustin Daly's Horizon and William F. Cody's Wild West: The Drama of Civilization
- 2 The Sabine wilderness and Progressive conservation: David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide
- 3 Dynamos, dust, and discontent: Eugene O'Neal's Dynamo and the Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers Triple-A Plowed Under and Power
- 4 We know we belong to the land: Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
- 5 (Re)claiming home and homelands: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Luis Valdez's Bernabé, and Sam Shepard's Buried Child
- 6 Stories in the land/legacies in the body: Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle, CherrÃe Moraga's Heroes and Saints, and Anne Galjour's Alligator Tales
- 7 Kinship, community, and climate change: Marie Clements's Burning Vision and Chantal Bilodeau's Sila
- Epilogue: theater as a site of civic generosity
- Index